{"id":200230,"date":"2008-10-08T10:57:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T10:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/?p=200230"},"modified":"2021-05-08T19:04:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T16:04:51","slug":"200230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/2008\/10\/08\/200230.html","title":{"rendered":"Vice chairman of Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly wasn\u2019t allowed in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Belarusian regime showed again that a desire to improve relations with the Western countries were just words that shouldn\u2019t be taken seriously, Kristiina Ojuland said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Ojuland planned to meet with representatives of some opposition movements during her visit. In her view, she was denied visa due to this reason, novosti.err.ee reports.<\/p>\n<p>Kristiina Ojuland has been in politics for 16 years. She has never been denied visas for this time.<\/p>\n<p>It is remarkable that OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Finland Alexander Stubb, saw some \u201cpositive changes\u201d in Belarus, in spite of the rigged \u201cparliamentary elections\u201d, but PACE vice chairperson wasn\u2019t allowed in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristiina Ojuland, vice speaker of the Estonian Parliament, vice chairperson of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), who planned to visit Belarus on October 9\u201310, was denied a visa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}